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5 Results for Contextual Factors

5.4 Coordination

5.4.3 Recommendations for future research

GENERAL:

More research is needed to understand the impact that coordination has on public health interventions during armed conflict.

Greater research attention should be given to the cost-benefit analysis of coordination of humanitarian public health interventions.

More research is needed into mechanisms and policies that safeguard or improve coordination during humanitarian crises.

Evidence is needed to understand OCHA’s ‘fitness-for-purpose’ for helping to address health needs.

INTEGRATION WITH LOCAL SYSTEMS:

More evidence is needed on the impact of integrated UN missions on healthcare delivery.

More research is required to analyse how international communities coordinate with local government.

COMPARING DIFFERENT COORDINATION MECHANISMS:

High quality comparative studies are needed to inform how coordination influences public health interventions, in particular the comparison of health interventions under varying levels of coordination; international vs. purely local/domestic mechanisms of coordination; urban vs. rural settings; and in natural disasters vs. armed conflict.

There is a need for research into the characterisation and influence of different aspects of coordination on public healthcare interventions, including coordination of information and its management; logistics; human and material resources; technologies; and institutional, trust and social networks.

Greater research attention could be given to the advantages and disadvantages for health of pooled funding within the UN structure.

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